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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Aravindan was born in Thrissur, Kerala as the eldest son of Ayyappan, an Excise department employee and Ponnamma, a school teacher. Later, he relocated to Mala and started using the place name along with his name. He died on 28th january 2015.

Aravindan started his career as a Tabala artist. He joined stage plays and started playing Tabala as a background artist. Later, he moved into acting and started acting in professional stage plays of Kottayam National Theaters, Nadakashala, Sooryasoma, etc. He has won KeralaStateNadakaAcademy's Best Actor award for his role in Sooryasoma's playNidhi.

Aravindan started his film career with the 1968 movieSindhooram, directed by Balakrishnan. Since then he has acted in over 100 films and established his own style which became his trademark. During the initial stages of his career, the Mala- Pappu- Jagathy trio was a guaranteed crowd-puller among Malayalam Film audiences.